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Ordering Hatching Eggs: What to Expect
Some of the rarest breeds and emerging hot varieties are often only available as hatching eggs.Source
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Starting a Flock with Baby Chicks
By Kelly Klober If you opt to start your heirloom flock with day-old baby chicks, you will have to allow time for them to develop and purchase them in the numbers that will allow for full and proper...
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Starting Your Flock the Fast Way
Ideally, you should acquire pairs or trios from two or three distinct genetic sources from which to then begin assembling your own breeding line. If finances won’t stretch that for — mine seldom do —...
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Tractor Time Episode 28: Dr. Paul Dettloff, V.M.D., author, livestock...
Dr. Paul Dettloff has spent 50 years in large animal veterinary practice, working with farmers all over the world to help them think differently.Source
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Ideas for Treating Parasites on Organic Cattle Farms
Immunity to worms usually starts becoming effective at about 12 months of age.Source
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Preventing & Treating Heat Stroke in Cattle Herds
Cows will graze much better in the early morning and cooler evenings than during bright daylight hours when it’s steaming. Source
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Watering Tips for Cattle Herds
Cows can drink up to thirty gallons of water each day.Source
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The Anatomy of Grass
To understand all the relations of an organism, including maintenance with its present environment, we must follow ecological clues clear back to 250 million years ago. Man’s survival depends on...
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Working with Broody Hens
The containment for brooding hens should be some distance from other birds to keep the broodies calm and to prevent other hens from laying to their nest. A quiet, darkened area is best and many once...
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Hatching Eggs in an Incubator
When hatching for yourself, eggs can go into the incubator at just about any time of the week as long as they won’t later overtax brooding and growing facilities. Source
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Chicken Breeds for Producing Brown Eggs
The Rosecomb Rhode Island White, the breed variety currently sanctioned by the American Poultry Association would be a good choice for those needing a moderate egg layer to produce in cold and harsh...
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Chicken Breeds for Producing White Eggs
The white-shelled eggs can be produced organically, cage free, and on range. With the breeds as they are currently available, it may actually be possible to produce more large and extra-large eggs from...
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Using the Toe Punch System With New Chicks
The numbers one through sixteen can be encoded into a chick via the toe punch system. These punches can denote the hatch from which the chicks came, the breeding pen that produced them, their time of...
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Poultry Breed Classes
By Kelly Klober Editor’s note: For a complete list of all reported large fowl breeds and varieties, see pages 367 to 376 of Kelly Klober’s Talking Chicken. Long before the acquisition of even a single...
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Caring for Ailing Chickens
By Kelly Klober Simple Poultry First Aid Consider having a few of the more common first aid and medical treatments for your poultry. The following are from our playbook. For scratches, cuts, tears and...
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Treating Parasites in Poultry
Parasite control does much to keep birds both comfortable and in a thrifty, productive condition. The birds can be affected by a number of different internal and external parasites. Fortunately, the...
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Boosting Breeding Bird Protein Levels
Most modern laying crumbles and pellets are quite good complete feeds and contain everything in them right down to a grit source. I like the pellets as there is less waste with them. They do not even...
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Feeding Chickens
Poultry are fed to improve their performance, to advance the birds, and not to simply save money. Good feedstuffs are an investment in the current and future productivity of the flock or flocks.Source
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Chick Nutritional Needs
Most baby chick feeds now are quite complete feeds onto themselves. They are sold in various small particulate, “crumbles” forms. Source
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Tractor Time Episode 29: Glen Rabenberg, Soil Expert
Rather than conforming to the traditional methods of soil science, Glen brings his knowledge of animal science and applies it to the soil.Source
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